Tie retainer



W. J. GETSINGER.

TIE RETAINER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 11, 1921.

Ki i

a rs RETAINER.

Application filed April 11,

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVILLIABLJ. tln'rsrNonu, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Tie Retainers, of which the following is a specification.

My invent-ion relates to a new and useful necktie retaining device, the principal object of my invention being to provide a relatively simple and efficient device that is adapted to be applied to the front portions of a soft or unstarched collar such as is now generally worn and which device, in addition to engaging and retaining the necktie in proper position upon said collar, engages and retains the front or overfolded portions of said collar so as to prevent said folded portions from wrinkling and folding downwardly to the discomfort of the wearer.

W'ith the foregoing and other objects in view, my invention consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts that will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. l is a perspective view of a collar and a bow tie applied to said collar and re tained in position by my improved device.

Fig. 2 is a rear elevational view of a bow tie and showing my improved retaining device applied thereto.

Fig. 8 is a horizontal line 33 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the ing device.

\eferring by numerals to the ing drawings, which illustrate a practical embodiment of my invention, 10 designates a strip or elongated rectangular section of thin flexible material such as celluloid, fiber board, resilient metal or the like, and which forms the body of my improved retaining device.

Formed through said body, preferably at a point near its center, through which. pass hooks 12 that are formed on the inner ends of short sections 13 of wire or analogous material, the same extending in opposite directions away from the centrally arranged aperture and the outer ends of said sections of wire are rebent so as to form hook members 14 that pass through apertures 15 in the body 10 and said apertures being located at short distances away from the centrally arranged section taken on. the

retainaccompany- Speeification Letters is an aperture 11 Patent.

1921. Serial No. 460,849.

aperture 11. hook said hook members may be readily engaged in the fabric of which collars are formed.

A device thus constructed, when applied to a bow tie of the form shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, is positioned between the rear portion of the loop L that passes around the center of the body B of the tie with the pointed ends of books 14 disposed directly against the rear face of said body B, and, when the tie with my improved retaining device is positioned thereupon is applied to a soft or unstarched collar, the end portions of the body 10 are inserted beneath the front wings or folds of the collar and the hook portions 14: are engaged through the edges of the fabric forming the body of the collar, immediately to the sides of the tabs that are provided with the front buttonholes; (see Figs. 1 and 3.)

When so positioned, the tie is firmly and conveniently held at the proper point on the collar, and as the front folded portions of the collar are engaged by the hooks 1+1: and the end portions of the body 10 overlie the front folded portions of the collar, the latter will be held in position so as to present a neat appearance, andalikewise it will be retained in an uncrushed condition and consequently preventing discomfort to the wearer.

Vl hile I have shown and described my improved retaining device as being applied to a bow tie, it will be readily understood that practically the same device may be utilized for retaining other forms of ties in position upon collars.

A necktie retaining device of 'my improved construction is comparatively simple, may be easily and cheaply produced, and is very effective in performing its intended functions.

It will be readily The terminal portions of the understood that minor changes in the size, form and construction of the various parts of my improved necktie retaining device may be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without departing from the spirit of my invention, the scope of which is set forth in the appended claims.

I c aim as my invention:

1. A. necktie retaining device comprising strip of thin flexible material, a pair of short sections of wire having their inner ends secured to the central portion of said Patented July. 18, 192%.

members i l are pointed in order that outer end portions of said sections of wire being; re-hent to form hooks that extend through said apertures and project inwardly toward each other. i

3. A neck-tie retaining device comprising 15 a strip of thin flexible material in which is formed a pair of apertures, and hooks secured to the central portion of said strip of thin flexible material, which hooks extendthrough said apertures and project inwardly toward each other.

In testimony name to this specification. 7 7 WM. 5. GETSINGER.

whereof I have signed my 

